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Hours before and after his death. is it smart? is it accurate? is it wight for secretary pompeo and secretary matic and the president and other senior officials to say there is no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the murder? >> this is just ridiculous, wolf. pompeo and mattis and trump are turning the united states into a laughingstock by denying what is so obvious. this hit team of saudi operatives, many of them members of the crown princes own security detail, they could not have wa...

Furious that the white house declined to let the cia director join a briefing on the murder of a journalist by a saudi hit team. is the trump administration protecting the saudi crown prince? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. president trump drops a bombshell, saying a pardon for the former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort, is, quote, not off the table. that comes as the special counsel, robert mueller, has called for the immedia...

Says president trump did nothing wrong, but this time, theres no blanket denial of wrongdoing for those who were in his inner circle. and not sharing intel. is the white house blocking the cia director from briefing u.s. senators on the murder of a u.s.-based journalist by a saudi hit team? and is the trump administration trying to shield the saudi crowned prince? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news. cnn has now obtained dr...

Where a hit team murdered him and chopped up his body and the crown prince was said to order the death. saudi officials deny the crown prince was involved. people in ukraine will begin living under martial law starting wednesday. the parliament just approved it at the request of the president after russian forces opened fire and seized three ukrainian ships between russia and crimea. they said the ships illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainians insist they were operating within marit...

Presidential rival and the fbi director he fired. it certainly says a lot about how he used the role as president. his statement begins with "the world is a very dangerous place". now, a lot could follow from that. the world is a very dangerous place, for example, so we must do all we can to make it safer. or the world is a very dangerous place which makes holding wrong doers more important than ever. president trump today chose a different path. something more along the lines of the world is a ...

Today. it begins with these seven words, "the world is a very dangerous place." now, a lot could follow from that. the world is a very dangerous place, for example, so we must do all we can to make it safer. or the world is a very dangerous place which makes holding wrong doers can accountable more important than ever. however, president trump today chose a different path. something more along the lines of the world is a dangerous place. because it is we should let murders get away with it, espe...

Held firm on american values over saudi values. lets discuss with the cnn global affairs analyst where jamal khashoggi also worked and david sanger. a bunch of things to run through here, david. but first lets fact check the president on this idea that the cia has not made a definitive assessment here. the fact is this was a high confidence assessment from the cia on the crown princes involvement here, which is as definitive as intelligence reports get, is it not? >> i think what the president w...

Journalist jamal khashoggis assassination. according to "the washington post," the cia examined multiple sources of intelligence which included this, a phone call that the crown princes brother, who is the saudi ambassador to the united states, had with khashoggi. "outfront" now, shane harris, one of the reporters who broke the story for the "washington post." shane, obviously, this is a huge development. this is not what the president wants to hear tonight. so, tell me what the cia has -- what ...

Turkish intelligence remembering, of course, that gina haspel, director of the cia, went to turkey last month and apparently was given those audio recordings that documented the torture, murder, and dismemberment of the "washington post" columnist. beyond that, its circumstantial. saudi arabia is an absolute monarchy, and the belief is that you cannot send a 15-man hit team to -- from saudi arabia to turkey to murder a prominent saudi citizen without the knowledge and approval of the de facto ru...

Istanbul which apparently document the torture, murder and dismemberment of mr. khashoggi. in addition to that, the cia got access to audio of a conversation on the phone between mutrib, a security official closely aligned with the saudi crown prince, in which he calls a senior adviser of the crown prince and tells him from the consulate that the deed is done. so all of that taken together in addition to the fact that, keep in mind that saudi arabia is an absolute monarchy. and the fact that a 1...